#in today's cash from 2001 $$ adjusted for inflation that's the equivalent of $40mm in export value roughly and probably north (wink) of tha

[13thpythagoras]

is it because Marx left out detail, so much that on one side we a country like North Korea, communist but isolated and militaristic, and with another communist country, Vietnam, it went a more democratic(?) socialist route and has a thriving economy, an exemplary place to live, to the extent that I actually have USA-American family, born and raised stateside in one of the most livable areas in the states, who eventually just said fuck this place I'm moving to Vietnam and they all did that and I have a ton of respect for it. So I don't know if this is a knock on Marx leaving out detail or what but clearly there's kind of a schism in the communist world between nations like Vietnam and North Korea(?)...one has a thriving economy and the other's main export is counterfeit US currency...not to defend capitalism or anything, just interesting to note some communist countries are thriving and some are degenerate, wondering kinda like whyyyyyy- possibly because Vietnam won its war for independence outright, while North Korea and China both kind of didn't, with stalemates ending in borders through their goal nation areas shared with South Korea and Taiwan respectively, as is so often the case after a civil war / revolution? ... i'm sure it's more complex than that but this is my instinctual broad stroke

Following you is so funny because I basically agree with a lot of your political stances, but then you say things like "under communism you won't have meat or fruit or family" like that's going to be a compelling pitch and not a US cartoon version of life under communism